Starmer on the Ropes Over Questions of Dishonesty
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4.8 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2026
⏱️ 90 minutes
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Summary
Keir Starmer could face an inquiry into whether he deliberately misled Parliament over the appointment of Peter Mandelson.
Plus: We speak to Mayor of Tower Hamlets Lutfur Rahman about running a left-wing local council, and Welsh campaigner Elbashir Idris speaks about his recent run-in with Reform UK’s Arron Banks.
With Aaron Bastani & James Butler.
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening, welcome to Navarra Life. |
| 0:05.0 | Coming up tonight, Kirstama could face an inquiry into whether he deliberately misled Parliament over the appointment of one Peter Mandelson. |
| 0:12.0 | Plus, we speak to Mayor of Town Amlets, Lutvahmahm, about running what is a left-wing local authority. |
| 0:19.0 | Welsh campaigner Elbashir Idris takes us through his recent running with Reform UK's, Aaron Banks, and the government takes another desperate swing at Palestine action. I'm Maram Bustani, and tonight I'm very happy to be joined by James Butler. James, how are we? I'm very well, and it's a pleasure to be back on home turf. Yeah, this is, we're rolling back the years. This is like the Rolling Stones. Some sort of tired reunion tour, unable to retire. Yeah. Past it geriatrics. Still thinking they've got it. We do qualify as geriatric millennials? We do, right? Oh, God. Just about. Just about. If you'd like to support our work here at Navaram Media, |
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| 1:32.4 | MPs have been debating whether Prime Minister Kier Stama should face an inquiry into whether he deliberately misled Parliament over Peter Mandelson's appointment as the ambassador to the United |
| 1:37.8 | States. The motion has been brought by a coalition of opposition parties and it calls the House |
| 1:43.5 | of Commons Privileges |
| 1:44.5 | Committee to lead the investigation. This is quite a big deal and could be very damaging |
| 1:50.1 | for Stama if it passes. After all, it was the Privileges Committee that looked into Boris Johnson |
| 1:55.4 | and the party gate scandal during COVID, finding that the former PM had misled the Commons, not once, but several times. |
| 2:03.7 | It's not a great association, is it, to be compared to Boza? The motion is being spearheaded by |
| 2:09.2 | Tory leader Kemi Badenok, but it's also being supported by her Lib Dem counterpart, Ed Davey, |
| 2:14.8 | as well as the SMP, the DUP and independent MPs. |
| 2:19.9 | Now, senior labour figures have called the motion a political stunt. |
| 2:24.2 | This was Kirstama speaking to Cathy Newman, who's just moved to Sky News, on Tuesday night. |
| 2:29.2 | What my political opponents are doing tomorrow is a political stunt. |
| 2:52.4 | Yeah, and it's a stunt that you pulled on the last Prime Minister, didn't you? It's a political stunt. And the reason they're doing it is that they don't agree with what we're doing as a government. So when we've made those big change. It's a stunt that you pulled, though, Prime Minister, isn't it? On Boris Johnson, you tabled the motion to refer him to the very same committee. |
| 3:01.0 | If you're so confident that your conduct is so very different to Boris Johnson, why not just let the Privileges Committee investigate, and you know you'll be proven right? |
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